misleader

Example Sentences

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Now the opportunist wheedles, now the demagogue roars; now a responsible leader advises, now a deft misleader distorts.

From Time Magazine Archive

A new reign is always accounted a new starting-point, and in this case the traditional method of dividing history is certainly no misleader.

From The Story of Ireland by Lawless, Emily

But without satisfaction from the Spaniard, the contriver of the mischief and the misleader of the Knight, his backbone, Schoppe said, would never run perpendicular again, and his spinal marrow would remain bent.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

It amounts to offering 658 prizes for the most successful flatterer, the most adroit misleader of a body of his fellow-countrymen.

From Considerations on Representative Government by Mill, John Stuart

As he has been the guiltiest misleader in ecclesiastical questions, his retirement is appropriate at the moment when we are trying to get the ear of the Pope.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron